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title: Tech Tip 0x04 - Using urlscan with mutt/neomutt
date:  2019-01-16
category:  TechTips
---

I am a big fan of terminal applications.  They tend to be quick, lean, powerful,
and lend themselves to composability.  They are ideal for honing a custom
workflow.  One of my absolute favourite programs is the e-mail program
[mutt](https://mutt.org) and it's more recent fork,
[neomutt](https://neomutt.org).  It is a joy to use, particularly if you are
a [vim](https://vim.org) user (it's deafult keybinings mirror vim, though
everything is customizable), and extremely powerful.  

Mutt/neomutt is technically a "mail user-agent", or MUA, a term which I think is
unfamiliar to most people.  The term means that it's a program which an end-user
can use to view emals.  In theory, that's really all it does.  It doesn't send
or receive email, provide a calendar or contact list, or any of the other bells
and whistles that most of the more common/popular email clients, like [Mozilla
Thunderbird](REF), Apple Mail, or Microsoft Outlook, tend to ship with.  In
practice, you *can* send and recieve email from within mutt, add to your address
book, and even integrate with your calendar; these things just require some
configuration and personal choices about which applications you wish to connect
to mutt.  In a future posts, I will describe the constellation of programs
I integrate to handle my email, including neomutt, [msmtprc](), [notmuch](REF),
[abook](REF), [fetchmail](REF), [gdbm](REF), [w3m](REF), and a few more.  This


